Previously on “Project Runway”: Joseph McRae was voted out, because there is no way they'd let a twin go home, and Joan is more mainstream. Then everyone had to make a “companion” piece for their unconventional materials look, which is a problem if you hate your unconventional materials look, as Joan and Madeline do. Joan managed to get some tailoring together for a suit, but Madeline was not successful. The twins helped each other, of course, and people got really pissy about it. Like, sniping that it must be nice to have your best friend here for moral support, I wish I had my sibling here, etc., as if they wouldn't also be leaning on them and pissing everyone else off. Belania got screwed over because her model called in sick last minute and she had to take in her outfit 4 sizes. Which is why it should be all plus-size models. Antonio was in the bottom but Heidi said it was her favorite because of course she did, so he is probably safe. Madeline had a sad outfit, and Belania had a boring outfit and resting bitch face. Veejay won, which is good because she should have won the unconventional materials challenge but we had to have only Law judge to cause drama. (click for more)
Antonio is in. Of course. Madeline's look was sad, and Belania had a bad attitude (although when she was talking back to them everything she said was true). However Belania is in, probably because she has had some good work and they just want her to be upset for drama. Madeline is out, and she's proud she showed up. They don't even show Christian coming to tell her to clean up her space. Jesus brags that they can't separate him and his brother. OK first of all, you're only being kept here for drama and so eventually one of you will have to defeat the other in head-to-head combat. Second, saying “you still can't separate us”, as if the other designers have anything to do with Heidi having terrible taste and loving Antonio's look. At least Nina read him the riot act. Supposedly Antonio is ready to work by himself, or at least he says in confessional.
Heidi comes to greet everyone on the runway in a shirt dress with strands of beads hanging down underneath it. You see what I mean about her taste. We are over halfway done with this dumb season. It's time for streetwear. A shirtdress with beaded fringe is not street but whatever. Heidi says they have to talk to someone who knows streetwear better than her (not hard) and it's just Law, appearing to say streetwear is a mindset, not a style. You can have high fashion, details, etc. I don't know that's very helpful, but they were always going to just make up judging criteria anyway. The designers have to make a streetwear look (the chyron says “elevated streetwear”) that speaks to their personal brand. Ethan has never made streetwear. Also only one day, which, why not just say this season is all one day challenges? This is all the guidance they will get right now.
Christian makes everyone go outside to “feel inspired”. They have to go to Mood by themselves, and then pick models, “and I threw in a little hunky moment for ya.” Oh are we allowing menswear today? Interesting that this happens after you get rid of Joseph McRae, a designer who would make crazy menswear streetwear. Boo.
45 minutes to sketch, outside, where it seems to be cold. Joan is thrilled, and is going to make a suit with puffy sleeves and wide pants. Old-school. Yuchen is also in his element, but he's got a lot going on. Jesus interviews that he's going for splatter paint and zippers, and then also that he should have won last week. Whatever. At Mood Belania takes over for Christian and recites some of his lines that he always says. They get $450 today. Antonio thinks he and Joan have similar tastes, since they are fighting over some fabric. Smash cut to all the times Joan straight up told him to his face she doesn't like his fabric. Heh. Joan wins, and I have always maintained this is a dumb fight, like if two people use the same fabric who cares? Joan spends all of her money on this fabric and giggles that Christian would be mad about her not having a back-up.
Ethan drapes elastic and makes a bodysuit. He's determined this won't ruin him. There are a large number of bomber jackets and volume everywhere. Antonio interviews that while his brother has won challenges, he has been in the bottom. So when he says he's ready to work by himself and ditch his brother, he might actually mean it. I mean, I think it's less “I am a great designer and can do it myself” and more “Everyone thinks my good work is all my brother's work” but sure. Jesus's jacket is pretty basic. I mean it's oversized but it's just a jacket with normal sleeves. Veejay interviews that he always does basic shit, and if she would choose to do basic shit, she'd also finish it in an hour. Ethan claims to have a body suit, but it's more a collection of straps and maybe some fabric over the nipples. Joan is perplexed. Ethan says there's something about a cunty bodysuit, and Joan forces him to explain what “cunty” means. Ha! Ethan explains via a series of gasps and weird sexual noises. Joan shakes her head and says “Help me Lord”. This is the best conversation so far.
Christian time! He immediately comes over to Joan and says he's sorry he wasn't at Mood, and she's happy he wasn't. He looks concerned, because he doesn't think a cool girl would dress in this fabric. Joan doesn't think fashion is just for kids in the street. Jesus's coat gets “a coat like a dad would wear, he lives in London and carries an umbrella”. Jesus does not explain why this is not true, he just whines that Christian is wrong. Belania is mixing prints, and thinking Audrey Hepburn. Christian seems cautiously optimistic. Belania says she's not sure where she fits in as a designer, I guess like eveningwear or streetwear or what. Antonio has big wide pants in what is for sure a Zubaz print. Christian says they will look Hammer Time, and this child is like “What the fuck is 'Hammer Time'?” I can't imagine you don't know since you so perfectly made some MC Hammer pants just now. He doesn't know who MC Hammer is. Help me Lord. Yuchen's hoodie has an alien face? Or head? Like the hood closes and it's an alien with antennae. He might not have time to finish. Ethan has a lot of work to do also, because this bodysuit is all thin strips and paneled pants. It might be too evening after all this.
Veejay is making menswear, even though she doesn't do this a lot. She's got patchwork pants, so there are a lot of pieces to sew together. Jesus interviews that it's “very unusual” that he doesn't get along with someone. Really? You call her a bitch every chance you get. That's not the behavior of someone who gets along with everyone all the time. Supposedly there is tension because of this. But the scene we just watched is Veejay and Belania talking about the pants, and then Jesus jumping in to yell that Veejay is a silent killer but one day you're in and the next day you are out! That is something you say to your good friends that you know well. You don't say it to someone you have “tension” with and then look into the camera and act like you don't understand the tension because everyone loves you. Then he says she's hasn't been “part” of the other designers. Except for where she gets along with Belania, obviously. Also what does that have to do with your relationship with her? Somehow she's going to stab him in the back and he has to watch out, as if he wouldn't do the same and blame her for it. Joan jokes that you have to watch out for “the roomie”, so this “I don't get along with her because she won't associate with anyone” is bullshit. We knew it was, I am just not sure the producers aren't trying to get us to agree with Jesus because the producers do not have a grasp on reality.
Model fitting. Joan's model tells her she needs sneakers with her look, because it's too evening. Is it? The cameraperson is not doing a good job of showing what this outfit looks like so all I know is it has crazy fabric. Jesus and Jesus's model join in that it's too evening, she needs to lose the collar, blah blah. I guess the top is a jacket with suit lapels and that's what they mean by “collar”. Jesus is literally folding and futzing with her look. No one asked you. He claims this is definitely coming from a “place of love”, which I don't buy because I literally just listened to you brag about how everyone loves you but Veejay so there must be something wrong with Veejay. Joan is determined to do what she wants and not listen to others. Veejay has some weird brown vest thing. I don't know. Belania is shortening her pants, and Christian warns her not to make it junior. Ethan...Ethan literally has a bunch of elastic straps on his model. That's it. No pants, no top. Yuchen has successfully made his alien hoodie thing, but in order to have the alien face showing the model has to zip up the hood over his face so he's probably not going to be able to breathe in there. There's no mouth. Also that's all he has done, and he's getting the “this is your challenge to lose” message. There is a lot of running around and screaming as we finish the day.
Runway Day. AKA “Day Two” according to the chyron, which is dumb because don't say it's a one day challenge and then say “Day Two”. Three hours to work this morning. Ethan did plan pants, but they aren't done. Joan tries to help him as he spirals. I'm fine with this help because all she's saying is “put it on the mannequin and look at it”. She's not trying to change anything. It might need to be a skirt and not pants, but he's spent so long on the pants it's a sunk cost fallacy now. Joan still loves her look, and Christian tells her to lose the hat but she loves it. Antonio demands attention from Christian, so he can show that he's made a top for his model. Said top is a three-inch wide rectangle wrapped around her boobs. There's underboob, it's not even wide enough to cover everything. Christian says it's a Band-Aid which is true. Antonio has spent his time making a handbag which looks like a stuffed rabbit with like, one button eye and one X. Shit's weird. Yuchen doesn't have time for a shirt. Jesus has a bunch of comments but I'm sick of him pretending he's Christian and is just so concerned for everyone.
Heidi today is wearing like, a shirt dress, the kind with a collar and buttons and stuff, but then also it's floor length with a mermaid skirt flounce. Guest judge is designer Christian Cowan, and also model Joan Smalls. Nina isn't here? This is bullshit.
Jesus: a skirt and jacket in a gray tweed pattern, but the fabric is shiny so I'm not sure what it is. It didn't look shiny in the workroom. The skirt is three (probably four) panels, with zippers between so you can unzip them to show skin, and it's a miniskirt on top of that. The coat is midi length and is lined in hot pink, including the hood. Also there are zippers all in the back of the coat. The top is a row of black tabs with thin silver edges. I can't tell if they're zippers or not, but below her boobs it looks like each rectangle is cut into two pieces vertically and those pieces are put on top of each other to make points. There are also platform Chelsea boots. He says something about putting “the fleece sweater” on his jacket, but I'm not sure if that means this fabric is fleece and that's why it's weirdly shiny, or the black cuffs and pocket lining are fleece, or what. I think he also did paint splatters.
Veejay: menswear look, pants and a cropped jacket in a dark blue. It might be charcoal? The pants are loose but not crazy, and look to have some darker patches. I think she said it would be leather patches. The jacket has long sleeves, and down the sleeves are tabs with metal rings, like a ridge. The shoulders of the jacket are also black leather, to match the patches. It's fine? But there's no shirt and that might be something the judges yell about today. Antonio: wide legged pants and a cropped top in a blue and pink print with hexagons. There are also black lines, but they appear to be short fringe? That's part of the fabric design? For sure it is some MC Hammer Zubaz pants print, but since he didn't bring the fabric back in at the ankle they don't look like Zubaz. It looks like the pants also have giant cargo pockets, in addition to being pretty wide. The top is a jacket, but it's attached just under her boobs, and then long sleeves. So his dumbass rectangle top only shows a tiny bit under the jacket, until she opens the jacket. Also the dumb rabbit bag.
Ethan: Hoo boy. So everything looks like a black leather, a little shiny. The “pants” are really a laced waistline, like a corset almost, and then strips of fabric like a car wash skirt. I think the pants are really only sewn together enough so she doesn't flash anyone. From her crotch to her waist it's mostly corset lacing, like it's not even really solid. Then a bodysuit that is basically black and silver elastic straps, so it doesn't cover very much. There are black rectangles to cover her nipples. Then a black coat with elbow length sleeves, and then long pieces to hang down to her knees. The coat almost looks quilted, like the leather has long parallel lines on it like it's stuffed with something and quilted, and it's stiff because the collar stands up a little bit. The back of the pants is shorter in the center than on the sides (at the waistline), but it is solid down past her butt.
Belania: cropped khaki cargo pants, kind of loose but not palazzo pants. Then there is a bodice like a corset, that is strapless and at the bottom arches over her hips and comes down in front a little longer, like a tab. This is shiny black with white dots; I believe it's sequins. The back comes down in like a train, but ends where the pants end. Then part of a white shirt, but only the arms and the collar. The button up collar is there, and then there is a triangle of skin showing, and then the corset. There's a back to it, cut short to end just above the corset. The pants have like a panel of fabric that hangs to the floor? I can't get a good look at it. It feels like she made cropped pants that are midi length, and then there's a six inch wide part at the side that she didn't cut short.
Joan: first of all, Joan's fabric is a black background with neon pink and sort of a paint splatter effect. There is also a lot of gray, and green fringe in squiggles. This is a suit with pants and a jacket with very wide sleeves. Imagine big half circles of fabric, that are long enough to hit mid-thigh. Then the middle of the straight line is sewn to the shoulder of the jacket. That's what the “sleeves” are like. It looks like it fits amazingly, but the suit with a hat seems dated. The jacket is cropped strangely. It hits the pants right at her navel, but then is cut diagonally to a high point under her arms, so there is some skin. It looks like there is no shirt, but there might be a bag. Yuchen: menswear pants and a hoodie. The pants just look like baggy black pants with some rings and maybe pins? There are little silver pieces that almost look like staples. The hoodie is white with horizontal slashes all down the front, and neon green peeking through. He takes the hood off, and it looks like the alien head is gone and it's just white with green slashes now.
Jesus, Ethan, and Veejay are safe. Ethan is safe? What? Fine. Yuchen and Joan are the bottom two. Joan is pissed. Oh look, Antonio had a confessional about how he needed to prove he was just as good as his brother and now here he is. He's also pleased Jesus isn't also in the top. Belania tells the judges that she didn't know what category she fit into, and now she's going to claim streetwear as her thing. Antonio had a great fabric choice, and they like the stupid bag for being young and fun. Law says they're “thrown back” by the fabric, but the waistband of the pants is just a black band and they don't like that. But they like the rest of it. Antonio says he wishes Nina was here so he could throw her comment in her face, that she didn't know what he was still doing here, which also makes me wonder if Nina WAS here, would he be in the top? Also you know Nina's gonna know you shittalked her.
Belania talks about Audrey Hepburn and taking a little preppy and mixing things. Law shits on her story and says just say it's you. Who cares what her story is? Belania says that is her, “Audrey Hepburn” and “schoolgirl”, and Law says it's not. OK you can't tell people they aren't who they say they are. He keeps on complaining, but then he says it's clear she knows who she is and he loves it. Then why tell her that her story is wrong and she should shut up about it? Just say you love it! He keeps going because this is how Law is, and now he's mad she's in her feelings. OF COURSE SHE IS. She said “this is me” and you argued with her! You said “this isn't you” for no reason because you love the outfit! If you want her to take critique about things that are wrong, fine. But you can't say “I like your outfit but you're wrong about who you are” and then complain Belania has an emotional reaction to that. He claims to want to help the next generation of designers, and tells her to have ownership in her look. SHE DID. You just wanted to say something negative to see if she'd smile about it or if you could tell her she was rude again. Anyway, the other judges don't say anything bad, they love the sequin to elevate it, it's great. The winner is Belania. Good. She's the only designer who has won twice.
Joan says that she was inspired by the fabric, and she wanted it to speak to her. It's like graffiti. It's a lot to take in. Law tells her she's an amazing tailor and they have no issue with that, but it's old. He says without the cutouts it's a church outfit. Oo. Yeah, a full jacket and a shirt under it and I could see it. Law says “but I love you Joan” and Joan says “I appreciate your feedback” and apparently that's all it takes to not get the same treatment as Belania. It's fashion for sure but not streetwear. Law says something about a bubble coat, but maybe she was too interested in the fabric. Streetwear = graffiti is too obvious. Yuchen is also too expected. Law is pissed at him because he's a streetwear designer and he didn't do anything exciting. “This is something on Canal Street and it says 'Balenciaga' but they spelled it wrong.” They've seen it too many times and everyone is bored. Then we have to do the whole “what you're wearing is better than what you designed” except he's wearing black baggy pants, a black T-shirt, and a beige like, Member's Only jacket. Yuchen knows it sucks and he apologizes to the judges because he hates this look too.
Joan doesn't know what streetwear is, maybe. Law thinks since she knows who she is as a designer, there's no room for growth. That's fair, Joan knows what she's good at and isn't really looking to change it up. The fabric was bad too. Yuchen didn't give them anything, it was something they could buy now for cheap. He knows it though.
So Joan has skills, and she made an “interesting” look that didn't fit the challenge. Yuchen fit the challenge (and is supposed to be a streetwear designer) but made something very boring. And also Joan loves her look and Yuchen hates his look. Neither of them is high drama so I'm not sure who they'll get rid of.
Next week: there's a horse. “Western flare”, Jesus fucks up his fabric, now Veejay thinks Ethan is copying from her and Jesus is more than willing to act like he likes her because he's an ass, ZAC POSEN AN ACTUAL DESIGNER IS HERE.
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